Our choice was very clear to me. The post needs to come down. If it does not, we lose our domain. To my knowledge there are no pro-free speech domain registrars and that is a massive problem. Our only other option now would be to play a cat and mouse game by transferring our domain to another registrar. Others who have attempted to play this game have failed and even had their domain seized completely from under them. We will not play these games. We have little choice, for now.
The free and open internet as we know it is under attack. It is centralized and controlled by no more than a handful of companies who provide these services:
Hosting
DDoS protection
Payment Processing
Domain Registrars
Mobile device hardware and software distribution
Without any of these things an individual website can not possibly compete and operate at scale. If left unchecked, these centralized platforms will continue their dominance and control the means of all information, personal data, and communication on the internet.
Good luck with creating "competitors" when they can steal your domain or just block traffic to your site based on nebulous accusations of hate speech or fake news.
At some point a lot of you are going to have to face the possibility that libertarianism and conservative "principles" are so much fucking moonshine.